So in his SOTU speech he said:

“You saw us taking a lot of action last year,” he said. “We produced more energy in this country, more oil in this country, than we imported for the first time in 20 years.”

Except he and his minions did everything they could to PREVENT any new energy sources from happening.

None of the new oil or gas fields came about form any actions of the federal government…in fact, they were a hindrance to the process.

But then again, the truth is not something which Barry has to deal with often.

But apparently it is “snowing” in the Caribbean too.

Just like those collars they put on bears and tigers to track them…..

So folks in Ukraine got a warning message the other day:

“Dear subscriber, you have been registered as a participant in a mass disturbance,”

Seems obvious in hindsight, doesn’t it?

I mean, how hard is it for the government to ping your cell phone and find out where you are? And if that phone were where a protest was, at the time that the protest was happening, then likely YOU were there too. Bad bad boy….Here is an IRS audit to make you behave better next time….Or maybe a visit from the Authorities….

We voluntarily take a device with us that can track our every movement….in a city, even down to feet. And even if we “turn off” the GPS portion of the phone, it is easy for the authorities to covertly turn it back on….

Hint: If you are going to a mass protest, LEAVE YOUR Cell phone at home (your everyday one that is). If you gotta carry a phone, get a “burner phone”. Protip: NEVER EVER EVER have both your personal everyday cell phone and your burner phone on at the same time…Never ever even have them within a mile of each other (farther is better). Should anyone (*Cough* NSA!!*Cough*) care enough to look, the fact that they are both co-located will be evidence enough to link the two together. In fact, it is best if you never have them in the same area at the same time ever….Leave your personal cell at home and drive to the location where your burner is….move farther before you turn it on. (This includes when you buy it and activate it for the first time….and even when you buy minutes for your burn phone……don’t even have your main phone with you. Leave it at home, and buy minutes as far away from home as possible.

Seriously….do you think that the NSA (or the FBI) has capabilities that are any less than the government of Ukraine? 

Remember, your phone “pings” the network several times a minute, active call or not.  In the countryside, this will lead to a location error measured in a few thousand feet….maybe more in an area where there is only one tower…But in an urban area, they can track you down to within less than 50 feet using adjacent towers to triangulate. And that is just using the cellular network…Using GPS, they can read your location to (sometimes) as few as feet. Yes, to less than a 10X10 area.

So if you want to go somewhere that the feds might not approve of, like, say, a protest against the government, LEAVE YOUR PERSONAL CELL PHONE AT HOME.

If you feel the need to communicate with others at the protest (or whatever you are doing to piss off Big Brother) then either use a burner phone that has NEVER BEEN POWERED UP WITHIN A MILE OR MORE OF YOUR PERSONAL CELL, ever, and has never been used to call anything but the other burn phones of your group, (and those phones also have to follow this rule or you are screwed) or find another means of communication…like say, THESE (buy ’em through my link on the sidebar so I get a commission, if you please) or other low powered close range communications devices…. They are cheap and they work well….but be careful what you say….they are not hard to intercept. The one advantage is that, unlike the cellular networks, they are harder to simply turn off….although they can be jammed.

Either way, if you are doing ANYTHING that the feds might not approve of, or meeting with anyone who could perhaps be linked to anything that the FEDS might no like, then turn off and leave your cell phone at home.

*If you are gonna go to a protest and you fear retribution, you have to ask yourself beforehand…”Is it worth it?”  Decide before you go…..And realize that with modern hi-rez photography, if you show your face at the protest you’ll likely be recognized by facial recognition software…..If the feds/NSA/FBI/Obama Administration care enough to find out who was at the protest or other proscribed activity….

Am I paranoid? Maybe……a better question is AM I PARANOID ENOUGH? Recent revelations by Snowden and actions like those of the Ukrainian government make me wonder….

The sad part is that these actions can no longer be considered impossible. I was raised believing that the Constitution allowed us to protest (peacefully) and that the government wouldn’t/was prevented by law from doing anything about it.

But today, I no longer believe that to be true. That which once separated us from places like Ukraine, or the Banana Republics no longer is in force, if it still exists at all.

ETA: BTW, NOW is the time to purchase your secure alternate communications devices….BEFORE you need them…..Just sayin’

Can’t remember where I found this….if it’s yours, let me know so I can give credit. 

ETA: Commens says XKCD

Just plain damned cold.

-18 give or take with wind chills in the -40’s.

That’s the prediction for the next few days.

I bet I meet a bunch of truckers that aren’t smart enough to buy a $25 bottle of fuel treatment and add it to their fuel. They’ll gell up and then bitch about having to be towed (circa $800) and then be charged another $500 to have their fuel treated and their fuel systems purged of the gelled fuel after being warmed in a garage. 

Or, we will have a few whose batteries are marginal on a warm day, who will bitch that they have to pay about $400 to have someone come out and start their trucks. But it only costs about $300 for a set of batteries that will likely have enough reserve power to start a truck on a cold day…..if they treat their fuel. And they still won’t buy new batteries afterwards.

Fools. Penny wise and pound foolish. You’d think that they’d learn after many years on the road…..But they apparently can’t.

But hey, we don’t mind taking their money. Lots of overtime and lots of profit.

Likely, someone who fails to do one of the above things will have serious frostbite from staying a cold, broken semi truck. Likely from not having a decent set of winter clothing. Happens every time we get some bad weather.

Cheapness will get you.

Me: The truck (a diesel) is full of treated fuel, and I am positive that it will start at colder temps than this. (If I bother to shut it off….it only burns about 0.4 gallons an hour). I’ll leave with gear that will enable me to walk to safety if I should need to.

Stupidity should hurt….and in this case, it’ll hurt your wallet.

I am, however, growing tired of all this global warming. I am running out of places to push and pile it. 

How long do you have to own a firearm before you can transfer it to someone else and not be a part of a “Straw Purchase”?

It is a valid question.

10 minutes? 10 days? Months? Years?

This a serious question. It could affect all of us. And, sadly, the Supremes will likely do things the way they always do and rule narrowly, leaving the above question unanswererd.

Here is the issue: Say I buy pistol….the newest Super-Duty Blastomatic from Guns-R-Us….I own it a week, take it to the range and try it, and I don’t like it. Can I sell it next week? Or do I have to wait a time before I can do so. …..EVEN IF I go through an FFL to sell it to another person….Have I broken a law?

That is what essentially happened in this case. Dude got a discount on a weapon because of his LEO credentials….Chose not to keep his purchase. Sold it through an FFL to his uncle. So Uncle isn’t a Prohibited Person, ’cause he passed a NICS check. 

So how long do we have to own a gun before we can sell it? Seriously.

Note these quotes:

“The assistant to the solicitor general, Joseph Palmore, admitted to the court that the ATF was “interpreting” the will of Congress when it added the “actual buyer” question in 1995 on the background form.”

and:

” Mr. Palmore said the other “critical” purposes of the ATF’s agenda with
determining the final buyer was “tracing of firearms and to prevent the
anonymous stockpiling of firearms.” Uncle Sam is not supposed to be
getting involved in a citizen’s decision to buy as many guns as he
decides he wants to defend himself.”

Re read that last….Read it again.

Any doubts as to the agenda?

Image Stolen from The Pirates Cove

Browning, that is. John Moses Browning.

Nearly every firearm made today (with a few exceptions) has a bit of a Browning design in it’s ancestry.

Go here for a few pictures of his work and history

Go HERE. 

Read it.

Read it all.

Whitewash? Sounds like it. I was suspicious when it happened, but had little time to devote to investigating, and haven’t had much time since.

I think that there is more to this than we know. And I believe that the coverup goes very hgih in our government.

I fear what will happen to the many decent, law abiding muslims that are in this country when another attack is actually carried out in the US by muslims.

If what I suspect has happened, then this was a failure by our PC riddled DHS folks.

And I find that scary.

Link found HERE

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” 


MLK. 






I see a great deal of progress on the White side towards achieving that goal, but not so much from the Black side. 


Gotta work both ways there for it to work at all.